{"id":1207,"date":"2012-02-24T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:47:12","slug":"st-marcellin-evangelical-church-a-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/st-marcellin-evangelical-church-a-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"St Marcellin Evangelical church, a correction."},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote yesterday that the small town of St Marcellin, near Grenoble didn’t have any more evangelical witness. For more details, read the post here<\/a>. I was led to believe this through a report on teh website of the Union des Eglises Evang\u00c3\u00a9liques libres which stated that the church had closed its doors(see the report here<\/a>). This report, written for a recent synod of this denomination stated: “L\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Eglise de Saint-Marcellin, au terme de plusieurs ann\u00c3\u00a9es de difficult\u00c3\u00a9 a progressivement cess\u00c3\u00a9 ses activit\u00c3\u00a9s, jusqu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00a0 s\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00a9teindre compl\u00c3\u00a8tement. Plusieurs de ses membres ont rejoint les Eglises de la r\u00c3\u00a9gion dont l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Eglise libre de Valence.” <\/em>I am very sorry if my initial post misled some of you.<\/p>\n

But I am glad to say that this is not the case. Following my post, I got in touch with the former pastor of that church, who was also a friend of my grand-father. He replied to my email today to say that there is still a group of believers meeting in St Marcellin. They are mainly elderly people, but there are a few younger ones. They had to sell their building a few years ago because of the running costs (it was a very old building in a former convent). After meeting in various places, they bought another building with the money of the sale of the other one.<\/p>\n

He also told me that a man from a church in Grenoble is taking interest in St Marcellin and has been thinking bout establishing a work there. I pray that this man won’t start a new work but would rather work with the existing church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote yesterday that the small town of St Marcellin, near Grenoble didn’t have any more evangelical witness. For more details, read the post here. I was led to believe this through a report on teh website of the Union des Eglises Evang\u00c3\u00a9liques libres which stated that the church had closed its doors(see the report … Continue reading “St Marcellin Evangelical church, a correction.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}